Well, I finally had a successful Angel of 100 Vampyre build! :D I just have one more Diamond to go and I can retire my DoomRL career as a God Hand. :)
Notes on this run:
I almost rage-quit on level 2 when I accidentally destroyed a berserk pack. I guess I can be glad I didn't. :)
I held off on assembling a chainsword until I could be sure I could get an additional upgrade for it, (someone recently told me how to mod assembled items) which probably risked the run. I wish I could say the risk paid off, but I found a chainsaw just afterward and ended up throwing the chainsword away after all. :P
When I found the Hell Staff, I was planning to throw it away once I found a homing phase device, because I'd rather have something more reliable that I know where it's going to take me. I generally consider regular phase devices (and the Hell Staff) to be too dangerous to use on Nightmare difficulty, but in this case, it turned out to be useful on several occasions, so I kept it until the end.
My tactical armour was destroyed the very next level after I made it by a barrage from Arch-Viles and Barons. :| But I found Malek's Armour on the very same level, which I wore until the end, so it all worked out. :)
Those Cerberus Boots almost killed me! I found the Cerberus Boots assembly purely by accident while slapping a whole bunch of mods on my boots, so I tried it out, mostly for the novelty of getting a Master Assembly for the first time. Pretty soon, I found myself unable to escape from a group of Revenants and Arch-Viles and when I was down to my last med-pack, I took off the boots and found I fared much better. Being able to walk over lava and acid is nice, but a 30% speed-reduction is deadly to a melee build! :|
Interesting thing about the Acid Spitter: It gives you 75% acid protection while you're wielding it, which includes protection from attacks from Barons! (I don't think it's really a spoiler to say that, since their in-game description says they throw balls of acid) From then on, I kept the Acid Spitter as my primary weapon, taking advantage of Juggler trait to fight with my power-modded double chainsaw in my prepared slot. I charged into groups of Barons and Bruiser Brothers without fear for the rest of the game. (Actually, for the last 40 levels or so, my Iro and TaN levels were high enough that I could charge into pretty much *any* group without fear)
For a good part of the mid-game, I worked on clearing every level, but at some point in the 50's or 60's I just decided to make a run for the exit as soon as possible each time. If I had cleared a few more levels, I probably would have gotten an Experience Cross. (I was pretty close to level 25!)
For the last half of the game, I was pretty much unstoppable. If I understand the way the Berserker trait works correctly, I had, on average, a 23% chance of going berserk with each hit of my power-modded double chainsaw, so even if my berserk ever ran out, I could get it back with just a few hits. And with the protection from being berserk and from the Malek's Armour, I was taking very little damage from anyone. I could charge headlong into groups of Arch-Viles, Revenants, Mancubi, Arachnotrons... you name it! I came out of every skirmish on top. I'm rather disappointed that I didn't encounter any Cyberdemons, since I'm sure I would've made short work of them.
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DoomRL (v.0.9.9.4) roguelike post-mortem character dump
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Tormuse, level 24 Arch-Vile Blade Marine,
completed 100 levels of torture on level 100 of the Phobos base.
He survived 272002 turns and scored 4971784 points.
He played for 1 day, 1 hour, 37 minutes and 9 seconds.
He opposed the Nightmare!
He killed 5259 out of 6221 hellspawn. (84%)
He was an Angel of 100!
-- Special levels --------------------------------------------
Levels generated : 0
Levels visited : 0
Levels completed : 0
-- Awards ----------------------------------------------------
Experience Medal
Dervis' Medallion
UAC Star (gold cluster)
Centurial Gold Badge
Centurial Diamond Badge
Centurial Platinum Badge
-- Graveyard -------------------------------------------------
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-- Statistics ------------------------------------------------
Health 77/110 Experience 880914/24
ToHit Ranged +0 ToHit Melee +10 ToDmg Ranged +0 ToDmg Melee +15
-- Traits ----------------------------------------------------
Class : Marine
Ironman (Level 5)
Finesse (Level 3)
Tough as nails (Level 3)
Reloader (Level 2)
Brute (Level 5)
Juggler (Level 1)
Berserker (Level 1)
Whizkid (Level 2)
Badass (Level 1)
Vampyre (Level 1)
Bru->Bru->Ber->TaN->Bad->MVm->Fin->Fin->WK->WK->TaN->Iro->Jug->Bru->Iro->TaN->Iro->Iro->Bru->Iro->Rel->Bru->Fin->Rel->
-- Equipment -------------------------------------------------
[a] [ Armor ] Malek's Armor [3/3] (70%)
[b] [ Weapon ] Acid Spitter (10d10) [10/10] {a}
[c] [ Boots ] modified plasteel boots [2/2] (99%) (A)
[d] [ Prepared ] modified double chainsaw (8d7) (P)
-- Inventory -------------------------------------------------
[a] modified tactical shotgun (9d3) [6/6] (P1)
[b] modified micro launcher (5d5) [1/1] (A1)
[c] modified gatling gun (1d7)x6 [52/52] (A1)
[d] modified hyperblaster (2d4)x3 [40/40] (A1)
[e] Shielded Armor [2]
[f] 10mm ammo (x100)
[g] shotgun shell (x47)
[h] rocket (x9)
[i] rocket (x10)
[j] power cell (x50)
[k] large med-pack
[l] large med-pack
[m] large med-pack
[n] large med-pack
[o] homing phase device
[p] homing phase device
[q] homing phase device
[r] thermonuclear bomb
[s] Hell Staff
[t] shell box (x100)
[u] shell box (x100)
-- Resistances -----------------------------------------------
Acid - internal 0% torso 95% feet 95%
Fire - internal 0% torso 30% feet 25%
Plasma - internal 0% torso 30% feet 0%
-- Kills -----------------------------------------------------
348 former humans
380 former sergeants
400 former captains
211 imps
58 demons
1680 lost souls
117 cacodemons
464 barons of hell
156 hell knights
141 arachnotrons
23 former commandos
47 pain elementals
301 arch-viles
314 mancubi
226 revenants
44 nightmare imps
84 nightmare cacodemons
160 nightmare demons
44 nightmare arachnotrons
3 nightmare arch-viles
41 bruiser brothers
12 shamblers
5 lava elemental
-- History ---------------------------------------------------
On level 10 he assembled a chainsword!
He nuked level 12!
On level 14 he assembled a tactical shotgun!
On level 16 he assembled a gatling gun!
On level 19 he assembled a micro launcher!
He nuked level 24!
On level 26 he found the Hell Staff!
On level 27 he assembled a double chainsaw!
On level 27 he assembled a tactical armor!
On level 28 he found the Malek's Armor!
On level 29 he assembled a hyperblaster!
On level 31 he assembled a cerberus boots!
On level 34 he stumbled into complex full of arch-viles!
On level 37 he found the Shielded Armor!
On level 38 he found the Anti-Freak Jackal!
On level 39 he ran for his life from lava!
On level 44 he encountered an armed nuke!
On level 45 he found the Medical Powerarmor!
On level 47 he found the Grammaton Cleric Beretta!
He nuked level 48!
On level 50 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
On level 51 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
On level 51 he found the Acid Spitter!
On level 54 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
He left level 54 as soon as possible.
On level 55 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
On level 61 he stumbled into a nightmare arachnotron cave!
He left level 64 as soon as possible.
On level 69 he stumbled into complex full of revenants!
On level 70 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He nuked level 73!
He nuked level 74!
He left level 76 as soon as possible.
On level 77 he ran for his life from lava!
On level 78 he encountered an armed nuke!
On level 78 he found the Jackhammer!
He nuked level 81!
On level 86 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
He nuked level 87!
He nuked level 88!
He sounded the alarm on level 90!
On level 90 he found the Hellwave Pack!
On level 93 he stumbled into complex full of mancubi!
Level 93 blasted him with unholy atmosphere!
On level 93 he found the Revenant's Launcher!
On level 95 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
On level 96 he stumbled into a nightmare cacodemon cave!
He left level 96 as soon as possible.
On level 97 he stumbled into a nightmare demon cave!
Level 98 was a hard nut to crack!
He left level 100 as soon as possible.
On level 100 he finally completed 100 levels of torture.
-- Messages --------------------------------------------------
You feel yanked away!
There are stairs leading downward here.
Just one more! Just one more! Will you die here? Press <Enter>...
You enter Phobos Hell, level 100.
You start running!
There is a small med-pack lying here.
There is a Tracking Map lying here.
You download tracking data to your PDA. You are hit! You are engulfed in
flames! You are engulfed in flames!
You dodge! The missile hits the arch-vile. You dodge!
You dodge!
You dodge! You dodge!
You dodge! Boom!
There are stairs leading downward here.
You did it! You completed 100 levels of DoomRL! You're the champion! Press
<Enter>...
-- General ---------------------------------------------------
460 brave souls have ventured into Phobos:
394 of those were killed.
27 didn't read the thermonuclear bomb manual.
And 16 couldn't handle the stress and committed a stupid suicide.
23 souls destroyed the Cyberdemon...
4 sacrificed itself for the good of mankind.
19 killed the bastard and survived.
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